Nineteenth Century American Women Poets An Anthology

by Bennett, Paula Bernat

• ISBN13: 9780631203988
• ISBN10: 0631203982
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Paula Bernat's anthology, based on seven years of pioneering archival research, establishes nineteenth-century American women's poetry as a major field in American literature and American women's history.

Author Biography

Paula Bernat Bennett is the author of Nineteenth Century American Women Poets: An Anthology, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Authors in Section II

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Principle Poets

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

Poems (1827):The Alpine Flowers, The Suttee, Death of an Infant

Cherokee Phoenix (1831): The Cherokee Mother

Poems (1834): Flora's Party, Indian Names

Family Magazine (1834): The Western Emigrant

Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1836): The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers

Select Poems (1842): The Volunteer

Christian Parlor Magazine (1844): A Scene at Sea

Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend (1849): Morning

The Western Home, and Other Poems (1854): Fallen Forests (Scenes in My Native Land 1845), Bell of the Wreck

Maria Gowen Brooks (1794?-1845)

Zoacute;phieuml;, or the Bride of Seven (1833)

Canto First: "Grove of Acacias," Sections L-XCVII

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806)

Southern Literary Messenger (1842)

The Sinless Child: A Poem in Seven Parts: Part VI, Part VII

The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1845): The Drowned Mariner

Frances Anne Butler Kemble (1809-1893)

Poems (1844): Sonnet: "There's not a fibre in my trembling frame"

Poems (1859): Lines: On Reading with Difficulty Some of Schiller's Early Love Poems, Noonday: By the Seaside, Sonnet: "What is my lady like? thou fain would'st know -", A Noonday Vision

Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Manuscript Poem (1836; Steele, 1992): To A. H. B

Manuscript Poem (1835; Steele, 1992): To the same {A. H. B.}: A Feverish Vision

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844): "Summer days of busy leisure", To Friend, Governor Everett Receiving the Indian Chiefs

Manuscript Poem (1844; Steele, 1992): Double Triangle, Serpent and Rays

Griswold (1849): Mozart

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811-1850)

Three Manuscript Poems (c. 1845? Dobson, 1993): "won't you die and be a spirit", The Wrath of the Rose, The Lady's Mistake

Poems (1846): The Lily's Delusion, The Daisy's Mistake, A Flight of Fancy, To Sybil, A Mother's Prayer in Illness

North America Daily (1848): Fanny Fay's Baby Jumper

Poems (1850): Women: A Fragment

Sarah Louisa Forten ("ADA") (1814-1883)

Liberator (1831): The Grave of the Slave, Past Joys, Prayer, The Slave

Liberator (1834): My Country, An Appeal to Women

Manuscript Poem (1837): "Look! 'Tis a woman's streaming eye"

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

Griswold (1849): Woman

Passion Flowers (1854): My Last Dance

Atlantic Monthly (1862): Battle-Hymn of the Republic (MS 1861)

Later Lyrics (1866): The Soul-Hunter, Night Musings, Rouge Gagne, Remembrance

Alice Cary (1820-1871)

Griswold (1849): Pictures of Memory

Beadle's Monthly (1866): Summer and Winter

The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1877): The Seal Fisher's Wife, A Fragment, Maid and Man

Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

Griswold (1849): The Christian Women

Poems and Parodies (1854): Samuel Brown, "The Day is Done", The City Life, Jacob, The Wife, Shakespearian Readings

National Anti-Slavery Standard (1861): Dead Love

Beadle's Monthly (1866): The Hunter and the Doe

Galaxy (1866): In Absence

Harper's Bazar (1896): Dorothy's Dower: In Three Parts

Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly (1873): Was He Henpecked?

The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1877): The Rose, Disenchanted, Hidden Sorrow

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

The Crayon (1857): Hannah Binding Shoes: A Rhyme of the Bay State

Poems (1869): Weaving

Atlantic Monthly (1870): Black Mountain in Bearcamp Lake

Good Company (1879): The Water Lily

Wild Roses of Cape Ann (1881): Wild Roses of Cape Ann, In Vision

Atlantic Monthly

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